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BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… Union-Rustenburg mine in the North West Province, and the Pando JV in Limpopo Province which is jointly owned with …
Submissions & winning projects 2007
Standing at the Albert Luthuli bust. Educators: First prize: M.E Masooa, Free State (PDF) Second prize: Tie between, Mrs Mawanda, Eastern Cape and J…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
The Pondo people fiercely resisted the rise of the Colonisersand their attempts to reshape and re-engineer Pondoland and to co-opt their Chiefs. Violence…
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
ArticleThe Transkei
Struggles against the Bantu Authorities Act were fought in the Transkei, where the resistance of the peasants culminated in the Pondo revolt which broke into…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
Early years and Political involvement Julius Sello Malema was born on 3 March 1981, in Seshego, Limpopo, and raised by a single mother who worked as a…
ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
The system of Black authorities and the reforms brought about in the agricultural sphere were not unreservedly accepted in the homelands. Opposition came from…
ArticlePondoland
Introduction. Pondoland is the traditional area of the Pondo people, one of the Xhosa speaking peoples. Pondoland area is situated on the South African coast…
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2009 to 2010
After the African National Congress victory, Jacob Zuma was elected the President of South Africa and announced his first Cabinet on 10 May 2009. The cabinet…
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2014
Department Ministry/Incumbent Deputies President Jacob Zuma Cyril Ramaphosa …
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei on 26 September 1936…
A List of women involved in the women’s struggle in South Africa, 1900-1994
ALiz AbrahamsMagdelene Malotane Adams Rachel (Ray) Alexander-SimonsRuth AlexanderPhyllis AltmanRuth Elizabeth ArndtJacqueline ArensteinZainab AsvatBFrances…
EventCharles Swart, a student ranger from Mangosuthu Technical College, is killed by a leopard
A 25 year-old tour guide and student from Mangosuthu Technical College in Durban, Charles Swart,was attacked bya hungry leopardon the bridge crossing the…
A force that cant be ignored
Aida Santos has been a women's activist in the Phillipines for many years .When she visited South Africa, she told Thoraya Pandy about the achievements of…
`We will come back with Msholozi`- erupts Pondoland, 12 December 2008
Sounds of "sizobuya naye uMsholozi" (we will come back with Msholozi), "ngena Jacob, ukhetho luyeza" (enter Jacob, elections are coming), "amandla ase masebene…
A change of heart
In the past, trade unionist Kaiser Sebedi saw women's issues as "unimportant". Today, Sebedi actively works for gender equality In his unlonThoraya Pandy asks…
ArchiveRegional Education Department Report (Angola)
African National Congress (ANC) Regional Education Department Report (Angola). Covers Luanda District, Lubango Unit, Caculama, farm Complex, Quibaxe Pango…
ArchiveInternational Youth Year Rally Ga-Matlabe
A2 blue, black and red silkscreen; graphic two students; logo International Youth Year text: International Youth Year Rally Ga-Matlabe; Traditional Dancing,…
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Joyce Kgoali, passed away following complications after a minor operation. Kgoali was also a…
Race and Caste: Hierarchy and Universality - CAS in partnership with Dept. of Sociology and Dept. of Anthropology Panel Discussion
Abstract: This conversation marks the launch of Race and Caste: Hierarchy and Universality, a special issue of Critical Times that examines the intertwined…
EventInhabitants flee UNITA occupation
The National Union for the Independence of Angola (UNITA), formed in 1966 by Jonas Savimbi to contest power and access to minerals in Angola, occupied Kuxi in…
PlaceDelmas
Delmas became famous in the latter part of 2010 for its proximity to the missing tiger known as Panjo. The tiger, only 17-months old, disappeared somewhere…
List of Robben Island Political Prisoners
Shamar Abduraghman Maduna Abednego Chiloane Abel Sibene Abishayi Mkhonza Abner …
EventRuth Perry is elected to lead Liberia, thus becoming Africa's first female head of state
History was made in Western Africa when, for the first time, a woman, Ms Ruth Sando Perry, was unanimously elected at a meeting of West African heads of state…
EventThe first missionary in Southern Africa, Gonçalo da Silveira, is murdered
Gonçalo da Silveira was a Jesuit Priest born and educated in Portugal. He was a missionary in India, acting as provincial superior for the Jesuits, before he…
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
Paintings and engravings on rocks in the open air and on cave walls are called rock art. There is rock art on about every continent, but South Africa has some…
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
Middelburg is a modern Town situated in the Cultural Heartland of the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa. Middelburg serves as the Agricultural, Industrial…
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
The Pondoland revolt in the Eastern Cape refered to the action taken by iKongo to reject tribal authorities and self-government of Transkei, initiated by the…